I’d find today’s One One Se7en much funnier, if my inbox wasn’t already chock-full of all of those comments. Sometimes you have to laugh, or you’ll cry.

If you have a 360, there’s a new Red vs Blue miniseries beginning on XBL Marketplace – ‘Out of Mind’ apparently tells the story of Tex and Wyoming (and Wyoming’s boss). It’s free, it’s in hi-res (Gus points out that it’s the first hi-def video they’ve created, and he’s pretty happy with how it came out), with gorgeous sound… and it’s exclusive to Marketplace. (For now, anyway.) Thanks, Endejas.

A little thing… but it made me laugh. Check out Dojorkan’s reworking of the Cairo Station battle.

The Halo Custom Mapping Team has released a promo video, giving you a sneak peek at the content of their upcoming release, ‘Halo CE: CMT Edition’. (This will be available on June 25.) It’s basically a reworkng of the entire Halo (1) single-player game… all 10 levels. Check Wave of Lag’s forum post for a link to the promo vid (20.1 mb, WMP9 format).

XerxdeeJ stopped by to say that Tied The Leader is back to updating – new skin (very pretty!), new focus – or at least, more focused focus. Stop by and say hi!

Nox Invictus points out that Joyride Studios has released the Series 8 Action Figures; they’re available for purchase now at the DieCastExpress site.

3Suns points out that PisToL is the Player of the Week over at MLGPro.com; go see why.

WortWortWort pointed out a blog entry from the guys behind Xbox World 360, a UK gaming magazine, talking about a huge amount of Halo content in the latest issue. Looks like if you have access to this mag, it’s worth buying! Update: Feenix clarifies that it’s not just a Halo feature, it’s a free 82-page Halo Trilogy Magazine, included within issue 40 of Xbox World 360. Almost makes you wish you lived in the UK, doesn’t it?

Fourteen (that’s 2×7) new pieces of Fan Fiction for you this Friday – go read!

Jillybean isn’t letting her fame go to her head… too fast. She’s still willing to slog through the Halo Story Page mailbag and clean off the gems (wash off the blood, wash off the rum). Go see what she found this time out.(Louis Wu 02:39:34 UTC)

The Halo Humpday Challenge writeup is now up over at Bungie.net; HaloPlanet might have won the overall match, but KP did a fine job of finding people on the other team to ridicule. (To the sniper in the first game – don’t worry, I feel your pain.) Go read. I’m guessing, though, that by now he’s gotten enough private messages for upcoming matches… you can probably stop writing. Frankie, of course, was first (I’m envisioning something like “KP, go get me coffee, then you can post the update”).

Hyp3r grunt dropped us a note – there’s a transcript of the Halo 3 ‘Behind the Scenes’ trailer up at Halo Nirvana. Give it a read!

DMDyet put together a small tutorial on converting a base image to a vector representation, using some work he did on the Halo 3 Trailer MC as an example. Comments can be added to the DeviantART page where it’s hosted, or to his forum post here

Last week we mentioned a Halo-themed parody of the Apple Switch ads – we just got word from Dennis Powers that this movie is now mirrored at HaloMovies.org, and is available in both the original WMP9 format as well as a QuickTime version. If you missed it then, go watch it now!

A quick note for the Bungie stalkers out there… John Butkus, a Bungie animator, half of the Cananimators (all stories on B.net about them seem to be gone forever, or I’d link you), and known online as Anim8rJB, proposed recently to Brooke, better known as Brookelyn, of the Fragdolls… and she said yes. No date that we know of. Congrats, you two!

A couple of weeks ago, Ninja 0n Fire, the Bungie playlist designer, posted a note on the Bungie.net forums which stated pretty clearly that weapons glitches (like BXR) and superbouncing were considered cheating in Matchmaking (though not necessarily bannable offenses, per se). As far as I know, this is the first time a Bungie employee has come out and said that this stuff is considered cheating – Sketch has suggested in the past that superbouncing, for example, is poor sportsmanship, but ‘cheating’ was reserved for activities that Bungie actually banned you for. We missed this – but HaloWiki picked up on it, and LegendaryMark wrote up a nice article on kicking the habit. Thanks, PEZ.

Ars Technica has a short piece comparing the Halo 2 Brute Shot to a Wookie blaster (from the Star Wars universe) – sort of makes sense, doesn’t it?(Louis Wu 12:28:03 UTC)

Psi Matrix pointed out that he’s remapped Blood Gulch with a cel-shaded mod designed by Xavier, who passed away a couple of years ago, as a tribute; you can grab the map in either .rar or .zip format, and he sent along a few screenshots (1 | 2 | MC | layout).(Louis Wu 12:24:51 UTC)